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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
I have to be honest, I’m just not a big Woolf fan (or of modernists in general). Much of it felt like a worse version of the kind of early novels I like. This book certainly does some interesting things about the concept of gender. On one hand it’s fairly progressive for her to have depicted a character that inhabits the body of both a man and a woman throughout the book and it’s refreshing to see how little the change bothers society. On the other, there is a lot of description about how this or that characteristic derived from Orlando’s time as a man or a woman and I just feel like that’s such a narrow view of gender. Why can’t Orlando have that characteristic because they are Orlando? Why are certain parts of this person coming from the man part of Orlando? Perhaps I’m not the best person to critique this but those are my thoughts (I also admit that some of the parts I simply zoned out because I was relatively bored, so perhaps I missed some nuanced part of this depiction of gender).
Ate this up! Love me some introspection (453 pages worth)
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
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4.5
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Entrar a Orlando sin saber absolutamente nada fue la mejor opción. Obvio que después fui y me spoilee todo sin querer queriendo, pero las primeras 100 páginas las leí completamente ignorante de la historia, lol.
Qué decir que no se haya dicho de Orlando: es sublime. La escritura de Woolf como siempre es espectacular, y la traducción borgiana da un resultado para atesorar. Me encanta cómo la historia te lleva a través de la vida de Orlando, a través de los distintos años y épocas. Woolf tiene una manera de describir y llevar la historia que nunca antes leí y confirmo que es una mis escritoras favoritas. Also, para los que necesiten un incentivo para leer Orlando por una u otra razón: para ser un clásico, es SUPER llevadero (no soy de las que creen que los clásicos son pesados, pero sé que varios sí), y sobre todo súper contemporáneo. Woolf ya de por sí era muy moderna, tanto en su escritura como en sus ideas, y se puede ver bien en sus obras. Y, lo que es más importante: es LGB(T)Q+. Now go read it.
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4.5
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Entrar a Orlando sin saber absolutamente nada fue la mejor opción. Obvio que después fui y me spoilee todo sin querer queriendo, pero las primeras 100 páginas las leí completamente ignorante de la historia, lol.
Qué decir que no se haya dicho de Orlando: es sublime. La escritura de Woolf como siempre es espectacular, y la traducción borgiana da un resultado para atesorar. Me encanta cómo la historia te lleva a través de la vida de Orlando, a través de los distintos años y épocas. Woolf tiene una manera de describir y llevar la historia que nunca antes leí y confirmo que es una mis escritoras favoritas. Also, para los que necesiten un incentivo para leer Orlando por una u otra razón: para ser un clásico, es SUPER llevadero (no soy de las que creen que los clásicos son pesados, pero sé que varios sí), y sobre todo súper contemporáneo. Woolf ya de por sí era muy moderna, tanto en su escritura como en sus ideas, y se puede ver bien en sus obras. Y, lo que es más importante: es LGB(T)Q+. Now go read it.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"how many different people are there not - Heaven help us - all having lodgement at one time or another in the human spirit? (…) so that it is the most usual thing in the world for a person to call, directly they are alone, Orlando? meaning by that, Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another. (…) still the Orlando she needs may not come; these selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own (…) so that one will only come if it is raining, another in a room with green curtains, another when Mrs Jones is not there, another if you can promise it a glass of wine - and so on; for everybody can multiply from his own experiences the different terms which his different selves have made with him."
4.5/5
4.5/5
Orlando reminds me of the woolf we see in her letters, insanely funny and i’d place the narration near “Jacob’s Room” and “Between the Acts,” which is fitting, because this book comes basically in the middle of her career. As a biography, Woolf deals more implicitly with omission or “the things people don’t say” but I liked it all the same.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes